Workplace HIV/AIDS control: transnational companies
Export Indicator
To assess progress in implementing workplace policies and programmes to combat HIV/AIDS in transnational companies
Number of employers with HIV/AIDS policies and programmes that meet all of the below criteria.
1. Prevention of stigmatization and discrimination on the basis of HIV infection status in: (a) staff recruitment and promotion; and (b) employment, sickness and termination benefits.
2. Workplace-based HIV-prevention activities that cover: (a) the basic facts on HIV and AIDS; (b) specifi c work-related HIV transmission hazards and safeguards; (c) condom promotion; (d) confidential voluntary counselling and testing; (e) sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and treatment; and (f) provisions for HIV- and AIDSrelated drugs.
Number of employers surveyed (110).
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) list of 100 largest transnational companies ranked by foreign assets plus an addition 10 transnationals in mining and tourism sectors are asked to state whether they are currently implementing personnel policies and procedures that cover, as a minimum, all of the following aspects.
1. Prevention of stigmatization and discrimination on the basis of HIV infection status in: (a) staff recruitment and promotion; and (b) employment, sickness and termination benefi ts.
2. Workplace-based HIV-prevention activities that cover: (a) the basic facts on HIV and AIDS; (b) specifi c work-related HIV transmission hazards and safeguards; (c) condom promotion; (d) confi dential voluntary counselling and testing; (e) sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and treatment; and (f) provisions for HIV- and AIDSrelated drugs.
Copies of written personnel policies and regulations should be obtained and assessed wherever possible.
Annual
Education: N/A
Gender: N/A
Geographic location: N/A
Pregnancy status: N/A
Sector: N/A
Target: N/A
Time period: N/A
Type of orphan: N/A
Vulnerability status: N/A